London - Britain yesterday urged its European Union partners to adopt new sanctions against Burma's military regime after the arrest of hundreds of members of the opposition. Burma's National League for Democracy, the party of the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, said the government had detained more than 300 of its members to stop them convening a "People's Parliament".
Mr Derek Fatchett, the Foreign Office minister for Asia, said in a statement that Britain "wholly condemned" the latest detentions and was raising the possibility of an EU ministerial visit to Rangoon to see Aung Suu Kyi.